Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

What do you think about money?

As a classic trait of bipolarists, what do you think about, how impulsive are you and what do you do to try to curtail yourself?

I can only offer that much of the time my vision of money is reduced to numbers in my online banking account. They either go up a little or down a little, and I can live off of it and that's it. There are no dollar bills that come into mind and of course little motivation to get a lot of "numbers" for myself either. They're just there to add to and draw from to live off of.

Personally, I hate money fairly passionately. As a loan shark, I see how it turns people into the worst people they can be. If there were a way of surviving reasonably without money I'd love to find it. The idea of trading your time...your life, for money is ludicrous. I hate it but unfortunately, it's a necessary evil.

For me money is something I can make alot of when I am manic but I spend it as fast as I make it and on crazy things. I buy my friends and kids things and go places ect....but when the depression sets in....well all I can do is obsess about my stupid choices and worry about how I am going to make it through and pay the bills I incured when I was manic. There must be a happy medium but I only know 2 ways manic and spending and having lots of fun and depressed never wanting to leave the house and not wanting to talk to anyone. If anyone has this figured out let me know

I agree with dismantle me, it is a necessary evil. Money is what is wreaking my marriage. It is something a person with power intvented to gain more control over the masses. But I LOVE going to do fun things like trips and vacations, and the things you can buy. I grew up very poor so money is hard for me to deal with. For me money is a waste of time, expecially if you are wasting your time working instead of your family.

For me money is something I will never have enough of. I see the red little numbers in my online accounts, and each month I see them getting larger and larger. I am at a point where I don't think I will ever be able to recover. I am wondering how long it will be before they drag me off to debtors prison. I have yet to find a way to control the shopping among other things.

i agree with dismantleme. i hate money and all it is worth. i am not a material person. my bf pays more than half his paycheck to child support and i only work part time, so money is always tight. it sucks. we never have money to take the kids some where fun, or even go on a date ourselves. money is the root of all evil. period!

It is interesting and maybe a little predictable that there is more hatred than love for money on here. I agree with the statement that it was invented by those in power to maintain control over the masses; I also agree that some people are simply more gifted and motivated to be more successful with money and if they use that gift justly, deserve it.
I can honestly say as I said above that I neither love nor hate money. It's simply there, fluctuating as numbers in an account as a means to live... until it runs out... I guess then I'll know my true opinion of money and that's where the necessary evil will come in.

I would also love to win the lottery, the fact is when i'm manic, that money won't last long in my account. I think I do better with little money. The more I have the more I spend and when I spend.....well, let's just say I end up paying more in overdraft fees than I do bills.... I hate knowing how much money I have. I just use the debit card and if I don't have the money, then my card denies my purchase. My boyfriend is AMAZING with money. I'm envious. And he asks me practically everyday if i've checked my balance online. He has to know that I know my balance. I avoid this knowledge like the plague....but I do it because he's saved me from money problems thousands of times and I owe it to him. I also tell him if I have an accident. Like my overspending at the grocery store...I had so much in my cart and I had just went grocery shopping 2 days before. I wince everytime I see the number and it just makes me feel bad. And if i'm feeling good, then who cares what my balance is...it's time to spend spend spend

You're right, it's like it has no value. If I had saved all the money I flitted away, I wouldn't have the hardships I have now. But I get along. When I was making good money, I paid my bills and never thought about the value of a dollar. Could have been play money for all it meant to me. I gave away more money than I ever saved.

Having been broke most of my life, I just learned to spend at charity stores and put off bills as long as i could. Lately since starting on medication ive flittered it away all on the billz i never paid.. Im sending myself more broke paying all my bills. At least im putting my money into the right things i guess.

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